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Salespeople Grow by Learning and Mentoring Each Other

by Elay Cohen

October 8, 2013

Salespeople Grow by Learning and Mentoring Each Other

SalesHood is a
community where salespeople learn from each other and mentor each other. SalesHood inspires sales teams to share real life
sales experiences and best practices.
SalesHood helps sales managers facilitate engaging conversations among sales teams that are educational, impactful and fun. The result is highly motivated and productive
salespeople.

The SalesHood Story

The word “SalesHood” emerged as a concept to us upon reflection
on what makes sales teams great. Successful
sales teams shared with us that they felt connected to one another. They learn from each other. Successful sales teams have a shared
experience and consciousness around how to sell and how to win.

With this feedback
in mind, we thought a lot about the words community, consciousness, and
experience in the context of the sales world. Words like “Zen” emerged as inspirational
concepts. We landed on the word selfhood meaning “…a fully developed self.” We
asked ourselves: “What would a fully developed sales professional look
like? How would a salesperson realize
his or her full potential better and faster? The word SalesHood emerged and the amazing
part of this story is that the URL was available, too! On March 15, 2013, we registered the domain.

Below is an image of the first time the founders of SalesHood met.

About the Author

Elay Cohen

Elay Cohen is the author of SalesHood: How Winning Sales Managers Inspire Sales Teams to Succeed and the co-founder of SalesHood, a SaaS sales enablement platform and community for sales professionals. Elay is the former Senior Vice President of Sales Productivity at Salesforce. Recognized as the company's "2011 Top Executive", and credited for creating and executing all of Salesforce's sales productivity programs that accelerated its growth from $300M to $3B+ in revenue. The sales training and sales support innovations delivered over these years by Elay and his team to thousands of sales reps resulted in unprecedented hypergrowth. He also created the Partner Relationship Management (PRM) category.